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The history after the 1916 Easter Rising is just a garbled mess of opinions and blame. There’s no consensus.” Eoin laughed, but the sound was brittle and mirthless. “That, my love, is Ireland.”
“take your trials and turn them into triumphs, to turn your contests into victories, to fight and never let anyone else define or defeat you.”
― Black and White: The Way I See It
― Black and White: The Way I See It
“Perhaps what we modern people need most is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and where life is unstable and uncertain, immoral and unprincipled, we would know that, also, and endure it. Perhaps that is the ultimate answer to the question of why God has sent us into this time, why He permits this whirlwind to go over the earth, and why He holds us in such a state of chaos and in hopelessness and in darkness-and why there is no end in sight.”
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
― Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944
“The second week of the trial contained all the elements of a soap opera; accusations of rape, death threats, suicide attempts, surprise tactics and allegations of police conspiracies.”
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
“You have to open a lot of oysters before you find a pearl.”
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
― Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death
“The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant-that they were not even men-and the world continued on.”
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